Neutral xenon hydrides in solid neon and their intrinsic stability

Halogen xenon hydrides ClXeH and BrXeH, their deuterated analogues, and ten tatively the HXeH dihydrides were generated in solid neon matrices and char acterized by infrared absorption spectroscopy. Preparation of these interes ting species in the weakly interacting neon matrix, as well as extensive de nsity functional theory calculations, suggests that their observation is no t solely due to stabilization by the matrix but that they should be capable of independent existence.